Only North-Americans have trouble with the concept that water is the best way to wash yourself after doing your business. Y'all seriously need to grow up.
Uh, Water? I use Brawndo, it's got electrolytes!
Plants crave electrolytes.
The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bidet (no hand sprayer, just a toilet seat based jet) works fine in this US household. I don’t notice the cold in the winter. Maybe I have an exceptionally robust asshole, but our water gets very cold in the winter.
Do you have decent central heating? Japanese households didn’t (and still don’t, it’s not required by law even in Tokyo), so heated toilet seats and heated water is considered essential. There is a reason kotatsus never caught in the states I guess. You won’t encounter nozzles in southern China either because the winters are too cold and they have even less heating than northern China (which is why everyone is wearin…
> we also don’t have central heat (just a heat pump
I'm so terminologically confused at this point by comments like this. In Texas, many people's central heat is a heat pump. My current house's heater is the first I've lived at in over forty years that wasn't a heat pump (this one is gas). High end homes, cheap rentals, everything in between, heat pump central heating.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
Much of the world is like this. Even in some advanced places, so I'm always on the lookout for the tp trash can to make sure I'm not going to damage their pipes by flushing when I visit a new area.
Greece is also like this. I think it’s wild. It’d be okay if they had bidets, but they don’t.
Portugal, too, and that's Western Europe.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use them everywhere I go. Ive not had any negative effects from doing that. Nor does the wand in our house have poop on it. I would honestly prefer to be exposed to germs rather than go the whole day with poo wedged in my ass.
Try to wipe your butt with toilet paper?
as discussed everywhere here, toilet paper is an often ineffective way to get poop off your butt
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#216Some of the features I really like about my Japanese toilet: * Heated seat * Bidet with warm water * “Omakase” power-saving setting that learns your schedule and turns off the heat during the times you are typically out or asleep. * Flush with a button press vs. turning a handle. This sounds minor, but whenever I have to use a toilet with a handle it is noticeably less convenient as you often have to keep the handle…
Yes the auto seat raise/lower is becoming more popular in japan
Importing that feature alone might help with higher divorce rates in the US.
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#217If anyone wants to explore the bidet space without replacing an entire toilet, I can recommend the Neo line of products from https://luxebidet.com/ They sell kits for under $70 USD that attach to existing toilets, using the space between the seat and bowl, and attach to the toilet's water supply with a tee fitting and one-way valve, either at the wall valve, or at the bottom of the tank. Installation should take less…
I suspect the practical reason they are not retrofitted is that few if any toilets in the US have a power outlet next to it.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shitting in a hole in the ground in the middle of nature is serene but also doesn't scale to population density.
Oh yes it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet .
Squat toilets aren't really the same thing as an outdoor toilet in the middle of the woods.
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#219A bidet is standard equipment in Argentinian homes, even the poorest houses have it. Once you get used to it, it’s incomprehensible that in other countries people just wipe and…hope for the best. But often it’s hard to install one in bathrooms that are not designed for it. So a Japanese toilet is a somewhat over the top solution in our house.
What kind of bidet?
I assume it's Italian/French style bidet (a separate item from the WC) and not the Japanese/SEA thing where it's a WC addition.
The fact we use the same term for three different kind of things is deeply confusing.
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#220I’m a happy bidet owner who retrofitted one. The biggest challenge was understanding local regulations and product design when it came to backflow prevention.
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